Acceptable Use Policy

1. Prohibited Content and Activities

• Illegal content, including material that infringes intellectual property or privacy rights.
• Unlawful processing of personal data or processing without a valid legal basis (where applicable by law).
• Malware, exploits, or attempts to gain unauthorized access to systems or data.
• Content intended to harass, abuse, or harm individuals or groups.
• Deceptive, fraudulent, or misleading activity.

2. Security and Integrity

• No probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of systems without written authorization.
• No interference with or disruption of the integrity or performance of the Services.
• Protect credentials, keys, and service accounts; rotate and scope access appropriately.

3. Resource Consumption and Abuse

• No traffic flooding, abusive concurrency, or resource exhaustion attacks.
• Operate within agreed throughput and concurrency limits; coordinate quota increases with IngestScale if needed.
• No excessive polling or bypassing orchestration safeguards.

4. Data Protection and Privacy

• Follow applicable data protection laws and internal governance requirements (e.g., DPIA where required).
• Use approved storage and network paths; avoid unauthorized data egress or ingestion outside your trust boundary.
• Honor opt-outs, subject rights requests, and retention requirements applicable to your use case.

5. Reporting Abuse

To report suspected abuse, vulnerabilities, or policy violations, please contact us. Provide sufficient detail for us to investigate (timestamps, request IDs, sample artifacts).

6. Enforcement

We may suspend or terminate access to the Services for violations of this AUP, and we may cooperate with law enforcement where required. We strive to provide notice and an opportunity to remediate where reasonable.

7. Changes to this AUP

We may update this AUP from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with an updated date. Continued use of the Services after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated AUP.